page_title: South Hadley, Massachusetts
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: South Hadley, Massachusetts / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Mount Holyoke campus, clock tower in South Hadley, Massachusetts , winter 2016.
context_page_description: South Hadley is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,514 at the 2010 census, and was estimated to be 17,791 in 2017. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
  South Hadley is home to Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley High School, Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School, and the Berkshire Hills Music Academy.
context_section_description: Mount Holyoke College, a member of the Five College Consortium, and one of the Seven Sisters colleges, is located in South Hadley.
  South Hadley High School is known for its highly competitive boys' athletic teams. It is home of the 2004 state champion lacrosse team that won Division II with the smallest high school enrollment of all 81 teams. It also won the 2005 Division IA Super Bowl in football. The 2008 boys' golf team won the Division 1 state championship. The Tigers Hockey team, composed of students from Holyoke, Granby, and South Hadley High Schools, has won WMass Championships in 1989, 2010, 2012, and 2017 as well as the 2009 and 2011 Massachusetts Division IIIA Ice Hockey State Championship. The South Hadley football team won the Division II Super Bowl vs. Putnum in 2010 after completing a season with only one loss to Division I for Longmeadow.  The baseball team won the Division II Massachusetts' state championship in 2012.
  The South Hadley High School Marching Band has competed in the state and/or New England USSBA Championship each year. In 2005 they placed second nationally and won Best Percussion. In 2006 they won the United States Marine Corps Esprit De corps award, second place in USSBA, and Best Percussion. In 2007 they took the best percussion for the third year in a row, Massachusetts USSBA championship, New England Championship, and seventh place in the Northern States championship. In 2008 they repeated as best percussion (for the fourth straight year) and seventh place in the Northern States championship. South Hadley continues to have one of the only competitive marching band programs in all of Western Massachusetts.
  Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School is a public charter school located in South Hadley, focusing in the performing arts.
  Berkshire Hills Music Academy (BHMA), founded in 1999 and opened in 2001, is a private post-secondary residential school for young adults with learning or developmental disabilities. The school is located on 40 acres (160,000 m²) at the former Joseph Skinner estate.
caption: Mount Holyoke College campus in South Hadley, winter 2016.
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